Facts? Plaschke don't need stinking fact

In a column today about an 87-year-old Dodgers scout who had salary cut 56 percent, Bill Plaschke wrote:
"As a 5-foot-6 shortstop from Staten Island, N.Y., Genovese was undrafted but fought his way through 22 years in the minor leagues and one at-bat in the major leagues, playing and managing sandwiched around three years in the Army."

Everyone in that era was undrafted. Plaschke, or a copy editor, should have known that.

It seemed like a cheap ploy to elicit sympathy for the guy, in typical Plaschke style.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-plaschke12-2009nov12,0,2601997,full.column

In a column today about an 87-year-old Dodgers scout who had salary cut 56 percent, Bill Plaschke wrote:
"As a 5-foot-6 shortstop from Staten Island, N.Y., Genovese was undrafted but fought his way through 22 years in the minor leagues and one at-bat in the major leagues, playing and managing sandwiched around three years in the Army."

In a column today about an 87-year-old Dodgers scout who had salary cut 56 percent, Bill Plaschke wrote:
"As a 5-foot-6 shortstop from Staten Island, N.Y., Genovese was undrafted but fought his way through 22 years in the minor leagues and one at-bat in the major leagues, playing and managing sandwiched around three years in the Army."

Everyone in that era was undrafted. Plaschke, or a copy editor, should have known that.

It seemed like a cheap ploy to elicit sympathy for the guy, in typical Plaschke style.

And according to baseball-reference, it was 1 at-bat but 2 plate appearances in the majors.
And 15 seasons in the minors, including three in the Mexican league. He was player/manager for parts of 5 seasons in the minors and mexico and managed four more years in the minors after he stopped playing.

In a column today about an 87-year-old Dodgers scout who had salary cut 56 percent, Bill Plaschke wrote:
"As a 5-foot-6 shortstop from Staten Island, N.Y., Genovese was undrafted but fought his way through 22 years in the minor leagues and one at-bat in the major leagues, playing and managing sandwiched around three years in the Army."

Everyone in that era was undrafted. Plaschke, or a copy editor, should have known that.

It seemed like a cheap ploy to elicit sympathy for the guy, in typical Plaschke style.